Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?
by Bill Case
I started out to do something I though should be fairly easy but I have
been at it all evening.
I am trying to burn some data files to DVD as a backup. Here is the
problem as far as I can tell. Brasero from root won't burn the files
directly but wants to turn them into an .iso.
Details:
I have a backup partition on which I keep my personal backups as well as
files and directories owned by root such as /etc. I was getting ready
to upgrade to Fedora 14. I decided that there was only some of my
backup files I wanted to further back up to a DVD disk. The total size
fits on one disk. Brasero will back up personal files but won't back up
root's files. If I su or sudo brasero and try it from there, brasero
wants to create /root/brasero.iso. Same happens with the CD/DVD
Creator.
The manual is silent on why root and user files won't mix or on how to
burn root files. Plus several annoying things happen with unwanted
programs popping up when using brasero and inserting discs.
I have received the suggestion that I tar the files first. I will do if
there are no other suggestions. If this post seems like a repeat, it
is, but I corrected the Subject: in the hope of getting more reads.
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Regards Bill
Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32
Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1
13 years, 6 months
fullscreen impress with compiz (openoffice)
by Ian Malone
Hi,
OpenOffice impress slideshows aren't working for me in F13. If I try
to run a slideshow it fails to run fullscreen and instead opens a
root-sized window which, if I'm lucky centres on the screen. (If
unlucky it sits at the bottom of the screen and has to be dragged up.)
The window also sits behind other windows and the gnome panels.
Disabling compiz works, however this thread:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5520&p=...
Seems to suggest I can enable a compiz workaround to fix this issue.
I've tried turning on the workarounds and legacy full screen, but this
doesn't seem to make any difference.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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imalone
13 years, 6 months
Re: Virtual desktops
by Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user
> could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around -
> basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things
> together - therefore I would like to see for each virtual desktop an group
> of applications.... Is that possible somehow on gnome desktop?
System->Preferences->Startup Applications/Options
Check "Automatically remember running . . ."
This works for me in Fedora 12 64-bit. Although with web browser, you'll sometimes get a "non-standard shutdown" requester asking if you want to return to the last page viewed, the home page, etc. And sometimes, some or all of the apps will load onto the first virtual desktop instead of the one they were originally running in when the system was shutdown or the user logged out.
B
13 years, 6 months
Some questions, one answer
by jarmo
"
Using KDE and chosen digital clock, it shows HH:32 forinstance. Ie.
it does nor show hours? Where I can get hours to be shown. "
I found ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals line where was set:
HH%M%S, change %H%M%S and hours came visible.
Jarmo
13 years, 6 months
RE: One satisfied customer with f14!
by Alan Gagne
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been far
>>> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and
>>> often don't work well due to lack of room. YMMV.
>> When I installed F13 from DVD, I specifically allocated a larger /boot
>> for this specific reason. My /boot is 485MB.
>>
> If preupgrade runs in that I'd love to know how much stuff it installs. And
> doesn't change my feelings about the inherent complexity of doing an in-place
> upgrade on a running system.
On three machines I just upgraded to F14 from F13 they have 300MB /boot.
I took all three down to just the running kernel prior to using
preupgrade. Just before the reboot to the actual upgrade it reports I
have 60MB left on /boot and need 26MB for the kernel. I think next time
around I will need to do fresh installs so I can resize my /boot.
Alan
13 years, 6 months
Kernel-PAE no longer 32 bit default?
by Tom Horsley
I was finally getting around to tweaking my 32 bit fedora 14
partition when I noticed that I was running kernel,
not kernel-PAE. PAE was previously the default. Did the
default change back to non-PAE, or did anaconda make
the wrong choice for my install? (I do have 8 gig
of memory, so I can use the PAE kernel). Just curious.
(And I just searched the "single page" version of the
release notes and the string "PAE" doesn't show up
anywhere :-).
13 years, 6 months
Virtual desktops
by Zoltan Hoppar
Hi Guys,
I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user could
set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around - basically
with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things together -
therefore I would like to see for each virtual desktop an group of
applications.... Is that possible somehow on gnome desktop?
Thanks,
Zoltan
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PGP: 06853DF7
13 years, 6 months
Some questions
by jarmo
Hi
Installed F14 into Toshiba Satellite L40-157 laptop.
Installation went smoothly, started wihout any hickups.
But...
Using KDE and chosen digital clock, it shows HH:32 forinstance. Ie.
it does nor show hours? Where I can get hours to be shown.
It seems also, that system-config-display has left away from F14,
now where I can configure display. In systemsettings there is
"display" but it does not tell me, what card to use or what display
to use. Card is according lspci Intel GM965/GL960 family. There is
too little choises to set resolution in systemsettings, so help is
needed. At the moment 1200x800.
Also sound problems. Lspci shows Intel 82801H iC8H family.
Output is ok, but MIC is not shown in any mixer??? Ie no
inputdevices shown?? Driver or ????
My desktop machine 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation
N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) works
fine.
So, fresh install, all updates installed.
Any quess?
Jarmo
13 years, 6 months
Sendmail failure
by Robert Moskowitz
This is on a server that has both the firewall and selinux disabled.
I just ran a cron job as root and it is trying to mail the output to
root. /etc/aliases has the following entry:
# Person who should get root's mail
root: rgm(a)htt-consult.com
and the server can reach the mailserver for htt-consult.com. I get the
following in /var/log/maillog:
Nov 18 10:00:05 homebase sendmail[10786]: oAIF04Ye010786: from=root,
size=1306, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<201011181500.oAIF04Ye010786(a)homebase.htt-consult.com>,
relay=root@localhost
Nov 18 10:00:05 homebase sendmail[10786]: oAIF04Ye010786: to=root,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=31306, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred:
Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Where should I be looking for this problem? Does sendmail need to be
running on this server (it is not)?
13 years, 6 months
apache cgi-bin ScriptAlias :Forbidden ???
by Sebastian E. Ovide
Hi All,
I'm trying to define a new ScriptAlias to run cgi from another folder. So I
have created a config file and placed it
in /etc/httpd/conf.d/apache.gis.conf
ScriptAlias /mapserver/ /home/gis/bin/
<Directory "/home/gis/bin/">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and in /home/gis/bin/ I have
[gis@mapserver-fc14 ~]$ ls /home/gis/bin/ -la
total 8312
drwxrwxr-x. 2 gis gis 4096 Nov 18 14:34 .
drwx------. 29 gis gis 4096 Nov 18 14:29 ..
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 gis gis 93 Nov 18 14:34 helloworld.cgi
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 gis gis 4247004 Nov 18 10:20 mapserv
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 gis gis 4247004 Nov 18 14:34 test
-rw-r--r--. 1 gis gis 164 Nov 18 10:20 tilecache.fcgi
[gis@mapserver-fc14 ~]$
But when I'm trying to access to http://myserver/mapserver/myscript I'm
getting
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /mapserver/mapserv on this server.
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Apache/2.2.17 (Fedora) Server at 10.0.1.61 Port 80
Any ideas ?
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Sebastian E. Ovide
13 years, 6 months